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Word: gen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, March 16--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, and members of the auto code authority will confer here tomorrow in an effort to avert the threatening strike of 100,000 men in the industry expected Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in Day's News | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...Inspector-General. That was in 1810. He took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted to the Inspector-Gen-eral's wife, proud Dona Ysabel, and was given the job of guarding her only son. Dona Ysabel's family motto appealed to him: "We fear no King, nor any devil; only God when He is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old California | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...long and 450 ft. wide was built over the island and its 17 inhabitants. On the platform was deposit a fleet of airplanes and 3,000 extras. An ocean liner was necessary to carry the workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey-Tunney fight, as he has been assigned to do, is blowing a toy pipe in a speakeasy. Discharged for incompetence, he gets drunk again the next night with better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 14, 1933 | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

These informal and irreverent remarks of Gen. Hugh Johnson, administrator of the National Industrial Recovery Act, tell most of the story as of today...

Author: By Bulkley S. Griffin, | Title: NEWS FROM WASHINGTON | 7/25/1933 | See Source »

...captains there are concerned, it will be put across no matter how much it hurts the manufacturer and business man. That is the important point. Some head men are ready for a showdown, if necessary. (But they would hate it.) An important business man counts for as much with Gen. Johnson as you or I do. The spacious halls of the commerce department, once wonted to bow low when a Business Man have in view, are witnessing strange things. The spectacle is typical of the new heaven and the new earth being manufactured out of professors' ideals and Johnson...

Author: By Bulkley S. Griffin, | Title: NEWS FROM WASHINGTON | 7/25/1933 | See Source »

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